论《一点慈悲》对美国例外论神话的质疑

A Mercy: A Query Against the Myth of American Exceptionalism

托妮·莫里森的近作《一点慈悲》回顾了美利坚民族起源,再现了美利坚民族萌芽阶段发生在蛮荒的北美大陆的宗教、文化冲突与种族、阶级隔阂。小说通过讲述来自不同种族和宗教文化背景的人物经历的生存困境、精神困顿与挣扎,对基于二元分离原则的例外论神话在美国文化中的潜在逻辑进行了反思与批判,指出了这一原则的荒谬与危害。《一点慈悲》对美国例外论神话的质疑和解构对于来自不同种族与文化群体的人们在当今多元文化并存的世界和谐共处具有重要的借鉴意义。

Toni Morrison＇ s novel A Mercy traces the origin of American nation, and depicts the religious and cultural conflicts, racial and class separation that occurred in the barren New World at the embryonic stage of the American nation. Through the narrative of survival predicament and spiritual dilemma of the people from diverse races, cultures and religious beliefs, the novel deconstructs the myth of American exceptionalism by demonstrating the absurdity and danger of American exeeptionalist principle of pernicious binary separation between ＂the Chosen＂ and ＂its Others＂, which provides significant reference to harmonious coexistence of people from different nations and cultures in today＇s multicuhural world.